So . . . . the administration comes out and makes a public statement saying it won't influence the Iraq elections and Mr. Conspiracy jumps up and down saying: "HOLY CRAP!! Lookee here Festus!!"
This from an administration you say has a secret agenda and you compare to Nazi's? NOW you believe them?
What's next? You're going to accuse the American government of the crime of honesty?
And you're believing a government controlled mainstream media source, TIME, which you've told us earlier can't be trusted?
By the way, the first story you provided is quite the little re-write of the actual TIME story:
But U.S. officials tell TIME that the Bush team ran into trouble with another plan involving those elections — a secret "finding" written several months ago proposing a covert CIA operation to aid candidates favored by Washington. A source says the idea was to help such candidates — whose opponents might be receiving covert backing from other countries, like Iran — but not necessarily to go so far as to rig the elections.
Kind of shoots down the purpose of this thread doesn't it?
The lead article in TIME on this as well, reflecting on the perils of having elections versus delays, pretty much as discussed last week on this board:
http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...702949,00.html
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Uhhh Cow, it never said the admin came out and told the truth, but the that House MINORITY leader started the process. I'm not sure I would call the minority leader part of the administration. They also cited 'U.S. officials'. We have no idea on who they are, (at least from these reports) only that it's a good thing that they came forward. They could be AGAINST the administration for all we know.
As DFF mentioned below you, it's about the checks and balances, one of the things I DO appreciate in the American governmental system over the Canadian one. Better checks and balances.
Instead of rigging something 'covert' though, wouldn't it just be better to stop the flow of Iranian dollars? I guess for some reason they can't do this and are trying to level they playing field, but I wonder just what 'covert' means. Is it mearly providing financial support to even the playing field? Or is it something more?